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WINNERS DREAM

This presentation consists of highlights from the interview with Moe Abdou,

founder & host of 33voices®.

Bill McDermott is the CEO of SAP, the world’s largest business soft-ware company. Before joining SAP in 2002, McDermott served as

executive vice president of Worldwide Sales and Operations at Siebel Systems and president of Gartner, Inc., where he led the company’s core operations. He spent seventeen years at Xerox Corporation,

where he rose from a sales professional to become the company’s youngest corporate officer and division president.

Bill McDermott@BillRMcDermott

CEO of SAP

Optimism is a state of mind; it’s built on the belief that you have the potential to achieve anything that your mind conceives.

“Some people see things as they are and say, ‘why?’ I dream things that

never were and say, ‘why not?’- Robert F. Kennedy

Insight #1

Insight #2

Admired leaders have a mission that’s enduring, a cause that’s infectious, and a strategy that anticipates a bigger future.

“The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity, and execute with vigor; to

sketch out a map of possibilities; and then to treat them as probabilities.”

- Christian Bovee

Insight #3

Trust is the ultimate human currency. The best way to earn it is to be the best

version of yourself, always.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what

you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

-John Wooden

Insight #4

An inspired manager celebrates the individuality in others - for it’s her bold

vision that ignites confidence, unleashes talent, teaches new skills; all while

shaping a collaborative force.

“Leadership is the art of developing followership.”

- Barry Rand

Insight #5

Next time you’re called to turnaround a faltering unit, get personal:

Insight #5

Next time you’re called to turnaround a faltering unit, get personal:

Find out what they want

Insight #5

Next time you’re called to turnaround a faltering unit, get personal:

Paint of a picture of success

Insight #5

Next time you’re called to turnaround a faltering unit, get personal:

Elevate the power of pageantry

Insight #6

It’s a sign of strength when an executive publicly puts her family

first, for she understands that her greatest accomplishment will forever be that family.

“I’ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.”

- Maya Angelou

Insight #7

Execution trumps everything. The audacity of any dream must be paired with

the micromanagement of reality. Preparation, diligence, follow-through, hard work. A plan.

“Fortune favors the bold.”- Virgil

Insight #8

When hiring managers, choose to hire the hungry and humble, for they’re not interested

in reporting the news, rather creating it.

“The secret to change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old,

but on building the new. .”- Dan Millman

Insight #9

The shift from startup founder to enterprise leader requires empathy and a relentless

commitment to develop the next generation.

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and

become more, you are a leader.”- John Quincy Adams

Insight #10

“Winners always dream, for they know that ‘the cause endures, the hope still lives,

and the dream shall never die.’ - Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy

What’s the biggest dream that you have for yourself?

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